Quality Assurance built a quote builder with a discount field and no limit

“Claude can fix it if it breaks.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Honestly? Because the nightly job requires somebody to click "continue". With 81 users and 41 feature requests.

Built by:

Jens, a product owner

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery

Database:

an API that returns CSV

Authentication:

the encryption key is in a comment explaining not to share it

Deployment:

running behind nginx config copied from Stack Overflow

Responsible:

Lukas, who only knows the frontend

Documentation:

a Miro board with 56 sticky notes

Security situation:

password reset emails contain the old password

Future disaster:

It will discover there are no backups.

Age: 18 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 18 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 1 departments depend on it, alive 3x longer than intended, €2k per year.